Conferences

Conference: Sentimental State(s) – Sentimental Politics of Order and Belonging

18. September 2023 Category: American Studies, Conferences, Department, English Studies, News

Conference: Sentimental State(s) - Sentimental Politics of Order and Belonging September 20-22, 2023 Alte Universitätsbibliothek, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg The conference is open to the public. Please register with an email to project-sentimental@fau.de. Please find the workshop program here.

Conference: “The Ambiguous Semantics of ‘Reeducation’ in Transnational and Transhistorical Perspective”

26. January 2022 Category: American Studies, Conferences, Department, Events, News

Taking an examination of US-American reeducation policies in Germany and Japan after World War II from a comparative and transnational perspective as its point of departure the conference broadens the focus beyond this specific geographical constellation and beyond the period of the immediate postwar to problematize and discuss the concept of “reeducation” in a broader sense.

Bavarian American Academy Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.

8. July 2021 Category: American Studies, Conferences, News

Over the course of this summer term, graduate seminars at Passau University, LMU Munich, and FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg have explored questions of structural racism in the context of the welfare state, higher education, and popular culture. The conference that will take place virtually on July 23/24, 20...

Online Conference “Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics”

3. February 2021 Category: Conferences, Department, Events, Linguistics, News, Research

FAU is hosting the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) conference “Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics” on 17-19 March 2021, organised by Prof. Dr. Judith Huber and the junior research group “Flexible Writers in Language History”.

Conference: “Restoration Epistolarity”

17. February 2020 Category: Conferences, Department, English Studies, Events

The changing media environment of the English Restoration brought forth a sizeable increase in various forms of literary culture, including the birth of large-scale periodical publishing and the ready availability of the letter. Contrary to the widely held consensus that the letter promoted reliability, recent scholarship has stressed the form’s deconstructive potential, allowing both readers and writers to reflect on the mediated nature of writing and the tenuous relationship between sign and reality.

Conference: Paragesellschaften. Imaginationen – Inszenierungen – Interaktionen

30. January 2020 Category: American Studies, Conferences, English Studies, Research

Die Abschlusstagung des DFG-Netzwerks „Paragesellschaften“ soll aufzeigen, wie das Konzept der ‚Paragesellschaften‘ die Perspektive auf Fragen gesellschaftlicher Homogenität, Heterogenität und Diversität weitet und eine differenzierte Annährung an Phänomene ermöglicht, die in politisch-medialen Kont...

The Constructionist Challenge – empirical and theoretical aspects. Lectures presented at opening of the FAU Linguistics Lab

26. September 2019 Category: Conferences, Department, Events, Linguistics, News, Research

The international conference "The Constructionist Challenge" will take place 17-19 October 2019 to mark the opening of the FAU Linguistics Lab. Speakers from Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the US will discuss the state of the art in construction grammar after thirty years of resea...

International Conference: Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain

3. July 2019 Category: Conferences, Department, English Studies, Events, News, Research

On 4 and 5 October 2019 the Department of English and American Studies will host the conference “Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain” with many renowned speakers from Austria, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. At the centre of discussion will be the literary, cultural and historical processes through which medicine and mobility were intertwined and reconfigured in Great Britain in the 19thcentury.